Take a trip with me back to the 1600’s. We’re looking for advice for our texts, tweets, posts, pins and comments.
“The nature and end of judgment or sentence
must be corrective, not vindictive;
for healing, not destruction.”
John Owen (1616-1683)
A Puritan Golden Treasury
It’s simple, really.
Corrective and healing – [send]
Vindictive and destructive – [delete]
And you thought those old dudes where outdated and irrelevant. 
Proverbs 31:26 (NIV)
She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
On her tongue, in her emails and her Facebook comments. 
Good advice from your mother –
Mom, and God.
Psalm 40:2 (NIV)
He lifted me . . . out of the mud and mire.
Psalm 24:3-4
Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?
. . . The one who has clean hands and a pure heart.
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Listen up. Mom was right. 
“Sin has the devil for its father,
shame for its companion,
and death for its wages.”
Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
James 1:15 (NIV)
Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;
and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
You might want to skip out on that family reunion.
I had one of those days: horrible circumstances not my fault, terrible responses all my fault.
Me: Some days are like that, Lord.
God: Without me, my child, every day
would be a very bad day.
How good are you?
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
I’m not accusing you. But I’m not excusing you either.
Forgive me, Lord, for spending so much time trying to look good in this world, while giving nary a thought about how I’ll look in the next.
